Buddhist Warfare

Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2010
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-539484-9 (ISBN)

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Buddhism has played a significant role in the current global rise in religious nationalism and violence, but the violent aspects of Buddhist tradition have been neglected in the outpouring of academic analyses and case studies of this disturbing trend. This book offers eight essays examining the dark side of a tradition often regarded as the religion of peace. The authors note the conflict between the Buddhist norms of non-violence and the prohibition of the killing of sentient beings and acts of state violence supported by the Buddhist community (sangha), acts of civil violence in which monks participate, and Buddhist intersectarian violence. They consider contemporary and historical cases of Buddhist warfare from a wide range of traditions - Tibetan, Mongolian, Japanese, Chinese, Sri Lankan, and Thai - critically examining both Buddhist textual sources justifying violence and Buddhist actors currently engaged in violence. They draw not only on archival material but interviews with those living and involved in war zones around the world. The book enriches our understanding both of the complexities of the Buddhist tradition and of the violence that is found in virtually all of the world's religious traditions.

Michael Jerryson: Director, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, and Professor of Global and International Studies, Religious Studies and Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara; MarK Juergensmeyer: Post-doctoral Fellow, UCSB

1. Buddhism and War ; 2. Making Merit through Warfare ; 3. Sacralized Warfare: The Fifth Dalai Lama and the Discourse of Religious Violence ; 4. Corporal Punishment during Mongolia's Theocratic Period ; 5. A Buddhological Critique of 'Soldier Zen' in Wartime Japan ; 6. Buddhist Monks in China during the Korean War ; 7. Sermons to Soldiers in the Sri Lankan Army ; 8. Militarizing Buddhism: Violence in Southern Thailand ; Concluding Remarks: Afterthoughts

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.2.2010
Zusatzinfo	7 black and white halftones, 3 line illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	381 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-539484-4 / 0195394844
ISBN-13	978-0-19-539484-9 / 9780195394849
Zustand	Neuware